Why Call of Duty Will Continue Selling Despite Not Listening to Gamers

There is an old saying: “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”, the Call of Duty creators have taken this to heart and have sworn by the Gods to never change.

A new release is expected every year for the Call of Duty franchise, this year is by no means an exemption the new Call of Duty title has already been confirmed, titled: Ghosts. Every year we see very little change to the game the franchise has become stagnant and boring, yet people still buy the game by the boat loads! Why? Is it just because there is nothing else to play? If a person would tell me that, I would call them a straight up liar to their face. There are tons of great games that come out each year, either that person is lazy to play other games, or that person is a bad consumer because they fail to see they are paying for the same product year after year.

They got new developers (along with Infinity Ward), and a new game engine. For all we know, they may also add a lot to the series. Did the guy who wrote the article not know this?

Anyway, I don't like COD, i'm a BF fan, myself. But if COD ever had the opportunity to change it's ways, it's the next one--considering the amount of changes in dev teams and engine that has already been confirmed. So, with knowledge of these few changes, I will wait for the reveal before I assume that it's the "same old thing".

Some people actually believe that since theres is a new Call of Duty game every year that they only make it like they do for games like Madden. That simply isn't true. They have multiple teams making it so it's really a two year cycle to create each one.

From the article, "This next Call of Duty coming up this November I am not gonna purchase, we have to make a stand!"

I see people say this every year yet it keeps selling. Enough of this 'we' stuff. If you don't like it don't buy it. Stop bothering other people who may not have issues with the game. The writer keeps talking about how there is so many other games to play. Great, there's your answer.

Who cares if they are using the same engine, it's not the same game. You don't need to have new engines every time you make a new game. It still runs at 60fps unlike most games and the graphics have improved because they have tweaked the engine and know the hardware better so that they can develop more efficiently.

This is why we buy new hardware, to get that leap in graphics and capabilities. I can't believe some are whining about how Call of Duty looks.

@CerebralAssassin

That's just the way it is here, many are just negative people to begin with and many don't like the success Call of Duty has brought. Many also feel the game should have substantial upgrades each year. While that may be true it's obvious what they are doing is working. There are tons of other games to play, what's the point of whining about Call of Duty?

Treyarch has been completely ignoring gamers' plea to fix the horrible networking and lag compensation ever since release, despite video footage proving that there are major flaws in the netcode. They've gone so far as to ban anyone on Twitter who attempts to send them videos of all the lag issues in the game.

Here's a good video showing in a very technical manner how the netcode of Black Ops 2 is completely flawed, and at times unplayable because of lag compensation:

You should realize that the gamers that speak about the series being milked and wanting it to stop is completely dwarfed by the people who love it. That applies to just about anything. If there's 10 people that speak up about something, there's 50 people who didn't say anything.

To sum this article up, it's basically: "I don't like CoD, but it sells really well. It shouldn't sell so well because I don't like it very much, seriously I don't think it's that great so I'm going to stop and you should too."

This community on N4G and even the one that frequents multiplatform game sites, are so small they don't matter. If every single user who frequents N4G said they weren't going to buy the new CoD and followed through on that, there would be zero change in what the game sells in total. 2,000-5,000 copies (way more than N4G's active members) is nothing, barely a drop in the bucket.

Call of Duty is FAR bigger than us, I wish some of you would realize that. Instead of spending all this energy on why people shouldn't buy CoD, why aren't you writing blogs about what people should be looking into instead? The Bureau: XCom Declassified sounds neat, talk about that instead.